Fractured fairy tales can be fun! Here is one that I wrote as an exercise to a prompt which, later on, ended up getting published. I wrote it in monorhyme which, I think, adds even more silliness to the already very silly poem. What do you think? I hope you enjoy my poem. A special thanks to the talented Julie Rowan-Zoch for supplying amazing artwork for this poem. I knew she would do something great and she did!

Without further ado, here is the poem:

﻿﻿Much Ado About a ’Do

When Rapunzel the fair had let down her long hair, Goldilocks, shocked, stood stock-still to stare. Finally Goldi called, “Hey you up there, what product is giving you such great hair care?” Rapunzel said, “If I were freed from this lair, I'd show you my tricks and give your hair some flair.” But Goldilocks told her, “No way! You’ll stay where the princes can’t see your hair. No, I won’t share!” Rapunzel cried, “Goldilocks, I do declare, your selfishness fills me with deepest despair. You must be aware there are princes to spare. I hope, down the road, you run into a bear!”﻿﻿B.J. Lee 2012 All Rights Reserved(first published in the ﻿Open Door﻿ Anthology, 2012)

Author

B. J. Lee is a children’s author and poet. Her picture book, There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth, is launching with Pelican Publishing on February 15, 2019. She has poems in 25 poetry anthologies published by Little, Brown, Wordsong, BloomsburyUK, National Geographic, Otter-Barry Books, Pomelo Books, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has worked with anthologists Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt. She has written poems for such children’s magazines as Spider, Highlights and The School Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @bjlee_writer.